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Re: [GWL]: Integral Urban House

Dear Rincon.  I am a freelance writer for the environment and your work sounds wonderful.  Writing to
say that I have authored 2 children's environmental books on composting that may be of interest to
you.  Pee Wee and the Magical Compost Heap  and Pee Wee's Great Adventure: A Guide to
Vermicomposting  take children on a fairy tale adventure with the facts about composting.  Books
include a glossary and resources.  If you would like to review these two please keep in touch. I sell
both books to schools for $8.00.  If you sell books at your bug farm, esp to teachers, these may be
of interest to you at the wholesale price. Keep up the good work.  Larraine Roulston.

RinconVitova wrote:

> We have done some work with the Olkowski's lately. They are living in Santa Barbara now. We run
> the family bug farm and have a non-profit institute, The Dietrick Institute for Insect Ecology
> http://dietrick.org through which we train farmers to build habitat to reduce pest problems. They
> helped us with an institute project. They will be happy to hear that their work lives on.
>
> I am building a gray water system (now that it is legal) in my suburban yard to water my raised
> beds and will put a bee hive on my garage roof soon (using a loophole in the anti-beekeeping city
> ordinance). I was inspired by the Integral Urban House.
>
> Now I field questions from customers that are looking for biological solutions for their pest
> problems. Soccer moms are now concerned about what pesticides they use at home and what their
> kid's school is using in the classroom and on the landscaping. The school districts of Ventura
> and Santa Barbara counties have announced a low risk pesticide (least toxic in Olkowski's
> verbiage) policy. LA Unified has an IPM program in place. Ventura County government has announced
> it plans to reduce its pesticide use. Farmers that scoffed at our biological approach five years
> ago now want to learn farm sustainably.
>
> We can now pull microbes, insects, nematodes, botanicals, and equipment off a virtual shelf and
> remedy a good percentage of pest problems. As a biologist I find this very exciting.
>
> Times have changed and are changing more and more rapidly. We owe a lot to the pioneers.
>
> We have a lot of information on our web site.
>
> Ron
>
> "Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
>
> > We have had a compost toilet of one sort or another for 22 years and while
> > they take some work, I don't even know what the savings could be by now on
> > things like water and having the septic tank pumped (tank was required by
> > the county, irregardless, since we still have gray water).  I've tried to
> > sell an article on our experiences with toilets, but no one seems to be
> > interested these days.
>
> * * * * * * * * *
>
> Ron Whitehurst
> Marketing Manager
>
> Rincon-Vitova Insectaries,
> P.O. Box 1555, Ventura, CA  93002-1555
> 805-643-5407   800-248-2847 (BUGS)   fax 805-643-6267
>
> e-mail:  bugnet@rinconvitova.com
> web:  http://www.rinconvitova.com
>
> Biological Solutions for Pest Management
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